Disabled victims of targeted violence, harassment and abuse: Barriers to reporting and seeking redress

Safer Communities

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 27-34

  Sin, Chih Hoong ^a   Mguni, Nina ^b   Cook, Chloe ^a   Comber, Natasha ^a   Hedges, Annie ^a  

^a Office for Public Management   (United Kingdom)

^b YOUNG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abuse; Disabled people; Harassment; Legislative tools; Reporting; Third party; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953350843     PISSN: 17578043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17578043200900035     Document Type: Article

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